A 42-year-old man has been charged following a shooting that involved an officer over the weekend in East. St. Louis.

KMOV reports that Demetrius O. Ward, of East St. Louis, was charged with possession of a firearm in relation to an incident that occurred around midnight Friday.

The local news source reports that according to the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, a deputy officer stopped a driver at a parking lot at 18th and Ridge Streets. After stopping, the driver, later identified as Ward, was shot by the deputy when Ward tried to reach for a gun.

Ward was taken to a St. Louis hospital and listed as stable on Monday.

Ward allegedly had a 9mm Taurus Pistol in his possession. He has a prior armed robbery conviction from 2005.

The deputy officer, who has been with the police for 7 years, will be on administrative leave during the investigation.

Hombre acusado después de intentar disparar a oficial en East St. Louis

Public trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years, according to a Russian state pollster.

The poll conducted by the Public Opinion Research Center, found that trust in the Russian president had fallen to 33.4 percent, its lowest level since 2006.

Reuters reports that the results, however, do not pose an immediate problem for Putin, who won a landslide election victory and a new six-year mandate in March last year, but could embolden any potential future adversaries.

Putin’s overall approval rating, which is different from his trust rating, is still high at just over 60 percent. However, it has slipped from its peak of nearly 90 percent amid dismay over falling household incomes and unpopular government moves to raise the retirement age and hike value added tax.

Putin’s trust rating hit a high of 71 percent in July 2015 after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea the previous year.

Despite the results the poll issued, Putin remains far more trusted than any other politician in Russia, the same poll showed.

British Prime Minister Theresa May tried to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit on Monday, by proposing to seek further concessions from the European Union in order to prevent custom checks on the Irish border.

However, May told parliament a “no-deal” Brexit could not be taken off the table as there was no approved alternative yet, and that the European Union would not postpone Britain’s exit date, scheduled for March 29.

Reuters reports that there is still no agreement in London on how and even whether it should leave the world’s biggest trading bloc. May’s plan for Brexit was defeated by the most votes in modern British history after it was rejected 432-202 by lawmakers last Tuesday.

“No-deal will only be taken off the table by either revoking Article 50, which turns back the results of the referendum – the government will not do that – or by having a deal, and that is what we are trying to work out,” May said.

She also noted that another referendum is off the table as it would strengthen the hand of those seeking to break up the United Kingdom and could damage social cohesion by undermining faith in democracy.

The Democratic California senator Kamala Harris has officially launched her presidential campaign for 2020, being the latest Democrat in announcing her intention to take on president Donald Trump in a field of a new generation of women and minority candidates.

Harris, who is also California’s former attorney general, launched her campaign for the White House on Monday, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America.

“Let’s do this, together. Let’s claim our future. For ourselves, for our children, and for our country,” said 54-year-old Harris in a campaign video that was released to coincide with her appearance on the morning television show.

The Guardian reports that the first-term senator portrayed herself as a fighter for justice, decency and equality in the video. “They’re the values we as Americans cherish, and they’re all on the line now,” Harris says. “The future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our voices to fight for our American values.”

Harris will formally launch her campaign on Sunday at a rally in Oakland, California, where she was born and began her career as a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.

Harris now joins fellow Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tulsi Gabbard and Julián Castro as the potential nominees to take on Trump on the 2020 elections.

Lauren Kohn Davis (left) and Heather Fleming (right), the march’s organizers.Photo Credit: St. Louis Public Radio

The women’s march is taking place this Saturday in downtown St. Louis, despite the weather advisory. More than a thousand people were expected to attend to the event that was scheduled to start at 10 a.m.

The third annual Women’s March started on Union Station and carried on to Tucker and Market. It is part of an international movement formally launched in cities around the globe the day after the inauguration of President Trump in January 2018, as the St. Louis Public radio reports.

Organizer Lauren Kohn Davis said on Friday that the march would take place despite the weather advisory.

“Absolutely the march is still on. I think one of the important things to remember is that it’s just a little cold, it’s just a few flakes. One of our other organizers said it best when she said, ‘If the unhoused population in our community can deal with this daily, we can deal with it for a few hours – we’re women come on.’”

More than 2,000 people said on the Facebook event that they were interested in attending.

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A 2-year-old child died Friday night after falling out of his mother’s vehicle and being struck by another car. The incident took place near Interstate 70 in north St. Louis County, as Fox 2 reports.

According to Sgt. Shawn McGuire, a spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department, police responded to the Shell gas station located at I-70 and Lucas and Hunt shortly after 4:45 p.m. for a report of a person struck.

Officers found a child having been hit by a car on Jennings Station Road near the interstate. The child’s mother reported the incident from the station, after picking up the injured 2-year-old.

The driver of the vehicle that struck the child remained at the scene and cooperated with police.

Authorities are asking witnesses of the incident to contact the St. Louis County Police Department at 636-529-8210.

A St. Clair County sheriff deputy was involved in a shooting in East St. Louis after pulling over a car at 18th Street and Ridge in East St. Louis, at around 12:00 a.m. Saturday.

According to Fox 2, the deputy asked the man to get out of the car. The man complied with instructions, but then ran from the deputy.

In a video, the suspect can be seen dropping a gun and then stopping to pick it up. The deputy ordered the man not to pick up the gun but the man began reaching for the gun and then the deputy shot the suspect.

The suspect was transported to a local hospital and his condition remains unknown.

The winter storm that arrived in St. Louis Friday has shifted in direction to the southeast, most likely because of the pressure being put on it from the north.

Fox 2 reports that this means rain should taper off for a while Saturday morning as the cold arrives in St. Louis. There may be some brief light snow and flurries as the cold settles in. Meanwhile, the main system will begin to lift northeast around midday and into Saturday’s afternoon. With the arrival of cold air, most, if not all of the precipitation is expected to fall as snow.

The local news media outlet reports that the heaviest snow axis has shifted from near I-44 to southeast of I-44 and is now focused more on the Farmington, Park Hills, Perryville region. What remains the same, though, are the very cold temperatures and strong winds blowing in from the north. Much colder air will be arriving this afternoon across the entire region.

A top North Korean nuclear envoy met president Donald Trump at the White House after engaging in talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday to discuss the groundwork for a second summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Reuters reports that the visit of Kim Yong Chol, Pyongyang’s lead negotiator with the United States and a former spy chief, signaled a potential movement in a denuclearization effort that has stalled since the first United States-North Korea summit that took place in Singapore last year.

Kim Yong Chol and Pompeo posed together for photographs at a Washington hotel before talking for about 45 minutes. After that meeting, the White House said Trump hostel Kim Yong Chol in the Oval Office to “discuss relations between the two countries and continued progress on North Korea’s final, fully verified denuclearization.”

The State Department said after Friday’s meeting that Pompeo had a “good discussion” with Kim Yong Col “on efforts to make progress on commitments President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un made at their summit in Singapore.”